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Background: Little is known about quality and quantity of Chinese clinical guidelines.
Objectives: To systematically review all of Chinese clinical guidelines.
Methods: We searched for the term guideline in CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure/Chinese Academic Journals full text Database), VIP and WANFANG (two Chinese fulltext databases), and CBM (China Biomedicine Database Disc). Two groups of review authors independently applied inclusion criteria, assessed trial quality, and extracted data.
Results: From 1978 to 2010, 397 clinical guidelines were identified of which only 37 (9.3%) claimed that an evidence based approached was used in the process of development; 3(0.8%) provided search strategies and 20 (5%) provided the levels of evidence and the recommendation.
Conclusions: There were very few evidence based clinical guidelines in China. Further assessment of all guidelines will be made using AGREEII tool.
Objectives: To systematically review all of Chinese clinical guidelines.
Methods: We searched for the term guideline in CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure/Chinese Academic Journals full text Database), VIP and WANFANG (two Chinese fulltext databases), and CBM (China Biomedicine Database Disc). Two groups of review authors independently applied inclusion criteria, assessed trial quality, and extracted data.
Results: From 1978 to 2010, 397 clinical guidelines were identified of which only 37 (9.3%) claimed that an evidence based approached was used in the process of development; 3(0.8%) provided search strategies and 20 (5%) provided the levels of evidence and the recommendation.
Conclusions: There were very few evidence based clinical guidelines in China. Further assessment of all guidelines will be made using AGREEII tool.